Can Eloqua Event Module generate unique QR codes and assign them to event registrants? I'd want to send them to event registrants in the registration confirmation or in a separate reminder email so that the registrant can bring their QR to the event and scan his/her code at check in.

The QR Cloud Component is now available and can be used to gather Visitor and Contact data as well as static values from your Landing Page visitors. The component is designed to supply this information to a blind Form submission. Your visitors can then be re-directed or sent email notifications using Form Processing. For more information, please see Installing and Using the QR Code Cloud Component.

Its definitely possible, we have done this for clients in the past, the cloud component Fred listed is intended for landing pages only, but if you are comfortable editing code you should be able to include it in an email as well you will just need to get the mail merges for your blind form submit setup properly.

A tip from experience, create a version of onsite check-in like i discuss here http://topliners.eloqua.com/thread/3752 because if you are emailing the QR the recipient needs to have images enabled when they print your email and you will be very surprised how many don't.

Also if its vital that a person only gets scanned once, create a new field on the contact record where you will store event check into like "attended event x" that gets updated on form submit and have 2 conditional redirects one for success and one looking at the field for your"event x" value so you know if that code has been scanned. We have noticed that contacts with shared email addresses will just print the same code a number of times.

Since you would like to print badges i assume you are you using the QR code to check in at multiple booths? if so the blind form submit option wont work the way you envision because this check-in method assumes a single check-in, to one form, but to check-in to a specific booth would require you to have a different form for each booth.

I can think of a few different methods to accomplish this, what kind of technology do you have onsite? do you have a physical scanner "gun" or will you be using smartphones?

Thanks for your response Mike. Actually, I do only require a single sign-in as it is a customer event. The idea is to use the QR code as a means of logging a delegates attendance, by scanning them on arrival...

In terms of technology, we have company iphones so I think the most cost effective solution would be to use those.

Keep in mind when you are scanning the QR codes you are technically submitting the attendance form as if you are the customer. I'd be cautious of visitor tracking scripts and cookies. You may want to make sure that your iphone blind form submission activities are not attaching themselves to your customer's Eloqua contact records and interfering with their activity histories.

Hi James, you could do it by hand in code using the same method i describe here for the click link submissions here http://topliners.eloqua.com/thread/3752, but instead of using a link, you would use image embed code. just get a designer to do up a simple attendee badge, put the code in one cell and split the columns to get to the data points you need to merge in. here a quick example i pulled together, you just need to fill down in xl to the number of registrants you have.

Very good point peter, but you can get around that by blocking cookies on the devices you are using to scan, or if you are using link methods, by hosting the file on pages without tracking, then the blind submits have no guids to associate and its just acting like an integrated form.